literature-editor

I can’t stand the Land Armers – everyone knows they are the worst. Me, I’m just a regular Street Warden. I do the job, sure, but not per their style. This street person, I saw him right out on the pavement, begging in broad daylight. He…

They leave the hotel ballroom soon after midnight, last out into the night except for the band. Two couples in their best clothes, elderly, exhausted but content, drunk with laughter; the men, James and Charlie, wearing tuxedos that have…

Young Irelanders, the name of this new anthology of short stories, is well titled with its echoes of the 1848 rebellion in famine-ravaged Ireland. In this year, a group of romantic nationalists and intellectuals heavily influenced by events…

My favourite author was a topic I never used to discuss that often. People would list off great names such as Joyce, Dickens, Tolkien, Hemingway, or Twain, and have heated debates about great pieces of literature that I have never read. I…

At Sea I’m watching a film. There’s a scene at the end where the leading lady gets into her car and drives. The camera, a bird’s eye view of highways and roads follows her progress until the journey slows curves along the edge of…

Let’s get one thing straight before we start; fuck Dickens. Just kidding! I’ve got nothing against Charlie. You go Glen Coco! As a teen, and as a struggling literature graduate, I found writers like Dickens to be immensely stuffy,…

The Man in Two Pieces, a new play starring Stephen Brennan and Gerard Adlum, premieres in Theatre Upstairs this week. It marks the beginning of a year-long residency in Theatre Upstairs for rising company Fast Intent (Nessa Matthews, Sarah…

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is: Cheers! We’ll detail some of the finest watering holes in literature but can you name the book?

There are reasons to learn off by heart; even if it's mindless, even if you're not an actor, even if you're not a poet, even if you're not Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada.  I say so because over the summer of 2014 I memorised The Wreck…

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is: School daze. We’ll give you the first line from some of your fond-remembered/most-hated school poems. See how many you can recall.